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Lindsay Daugherty; Jenna W. Kramer; Louis T. Mariano; Clare Cady; Heather Gomez-Bendaña; Tiffany Berglund; Samantha Ryan; Michelle Bongard; Joshua Eagan; Christopher Joseph Doss – RAND Corporation, 2025
Many U.S. college students are unable to meet their basic needs and struggle to secure regular food and housing. Colleges across the United States have recognized the importance of helping to meet the basic needs of their students and are increasingly providing support to students in the form of emergency aid, food pantries, and assistance with…
Descriptors: College Students, Needs, Need Gratification, Federal Programs
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Plecki, Margaret; Loeb, Hilary – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
Legislative and programmatic efforts to improve teacher quality have become a major focus of state policymaking in recent years. States have employed numerous strategies in response to concerns about the preparation, quantity, and capacity of the teacher workforce. In this chapter, the authors introduce conceptual frameworks for understanding…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Policy
Perez-Johnson, Irma; Decker, Paul – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires that workforce investment areas establish individual training accounts (ITAs) that provide vouchers customers can use to pay for training. The United States Department of Labor is supporting the ITA experiment, during which new customers determined to be eligible for training will be randomly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems